Wynns Black Label Old Vines Shiraz 2024

A super season in Coonawarra has produced an outstanding example of this style. This is generous and intense, but delivers with that real Coonawarra elegance and poise that captures so much of the region and, in this case, a very good season. The colour is vibrant, with ready crimson tones. On the nose, you get a sort of ripe red fruit character which sits more in that cherry and pomegranate spectrum, sprinkled with a little pepperiness. The palate highlights Shiraz from a cooler climate, bursting with energy and life, with fine chalky tannins and well-managed oak, which is a combination of new and seasoned hogsheads and barriques, where it spent about 16 months. Supremely balanced and poised, with potential to cellar in the medium term. But this is such great drinking now.